Hi everyone! Here’s your semi-regular Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been busy since last time!

The two big new features we launched were domain blocklists (GitHub) and responding to unbridged users (GitHub). We’ve seen good feedback and usage on both, especially responding to unbridged users. Please keep the feedback coming!

We also significantly improved bridging speed, especially to Bluesky. For a couple months, it slowed down to an average delay of 3-5 minutes, with outliers that took so long that we occasionally dropped them entirely. Not good. We worked hard to optimize and managed to cut that average delay down to just 5-10 seconds, which feels way better.

We shipped a bunch of smaller stuff too:

• Bluesky standard.site support (still rolling out)
• Improve pinned posts, notably when they were pinned before a user enabled the bridge
• Fediverse: use Article preview field
• Web UI: add buttons to unblock domain blocklists in settings
• Web UI: bug fix for raw HTML appearing in some warning messages
• bug fix for linking @-mentions of unbridged fediverse users
• bug fix for Webfinger XRD output
• Misc reliability improvements to our ATProto firehose server and client
• Unfollowed everyone from the @ap.brid.gy Bluesky bot account. Its large number of follows (65k+) had unintentionally landed it on a handful of “follows too many people” automated blocklists.

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!